>Ok. Could we gather what we already have and what we need to get? In >which directions should we push which people? For example, we're getting >the glue (jackit) but what do we need to glue together? Is there >something nobody has started to make, even if it's clearly needed (well, >clearly for you, I cannot come up with anything right now ;)
* no real-time CD recorder (i have a somewhat working prototype) * no "chromed-GUI" extensible/modular software synthesis (quasimodo was a start) * no s/w samplers like Halion or Gigasampler * many significant DSP plugins missing, despite steve harris' amazing efforts * no loop-based+edit stuff like Acid (spiral loops is cool, but doesn't really do editing and is 100% loop-driven) * no jamman/echoplex-like real-time looping devices >I'd love to see Linux as a powerful, open, extensible (but still >supporting non-programmers) pro music station. I actually need to see >it. And I'm willing to slay part of my precious free time for it. how about *all* your precious free time? :) --p